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Show : , . .. 1 . . . . ) "7 : ing piace uiey were agam prostrated and ! once more removed. Dr. Jeserich was summoned, and he at once attacked the wall paper. He found that the walls carried three layers of paper, having been repapered twice. A most careful examination revealed no trace of arsenic whatever In the two outer papers, but the' inner or original covering contained an enormous quantity quan-tity of the poison. To a surface of twelve square meters, which is about the area covered by wall paper in a room of moderate mod-erate size, the paper contained twenty grammes of arsenic acid. Philadelphia Times. Popular Books In Chicago. The old book seller on Madison street says: "Dickens is always in demand. When a man reads one'ef Dickens' novels nov-els he seems to think that he must read them all. That isn't the cao with the demand for Scott and Thackeray. I sell a few of the works of both frequently, but seldom have a call for a full set of either. . The favorite in Scott's set is Ivanhoe;' tlie favorite in Thackeray's, Pendennis.' "Chicago Tribune. Anemic In Wall Paper.' The danger of using hangings or wall paper which contain arsenic was very forcibly illustrated in - Berlin not long since by the fcunoua chemist and expert, Dr. Paul Jeserich. the head of the renowned re-nowned Sunshine laboratory. A woman and her little child were taken suddenly and dangerously ill without with-out any apparent cause and the family physician was summoned in haste. After Af-ter a careful examination he decided that his patients had all the symptoms of arsenical poisoning. He did everything every-thing in his power to help them, and finally they were removed into another rooni to see if any change would prove beneficial, and they very soon recovered. 1 TJDoq goiuz back .to their lonner iieeD- |
